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  Guwahati's cycling community turns relief riders amid Covid The Guwahati cycling community, which had started its mission a couple of years ago to protect the environment and save fuel, besides popularising cycling as a mode of recreation, is now helping Covid patients, ailing people and senior citizens. The 'Cycling Community' of Guwahati launched the 'Relief Riders' mission two weeks ago to serve Covid patients, ailing people, senior citizens and those in distress with essential items, including food and medicines. One of the pioneers of the 'Relief Riders' mission, Arshel Akhter, said that riding their bicycles, the members of the cycling community are delivering prepared food, medicines, vegetables, fruits, groceries and other essential items to those in need without charging anything for delivery. "Through online mode or by making cash payments, the beneficiaries are paying for their required items and our volunteers are delivering the essentials

In line with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of AtmaNirbhar Bharat, National Security  Advisor Ajit Doval commissioned Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) Sajag through digital means and dedicated it to the nation for safeguarding the maritime interests on May 29, 2021. OPV Sajag is constructed by M/s Goa Shipyard Limited. Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar, Indian Coast Guard Director General K Natarajan and CMD Goa shipyard Cmde BB Nagpal (Retd) were among those who attended the event.        In his address, Ajit Doval said the concept of forming ICG came into being post 1971 war, when it was assessed that maritime borders are equally vital as land borders. The blueprint for a multi-dimension Coast Guard was conceived by the visionary Rustamji Committee even as the United Nations Convention of the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) was being negotiated and India’s assets off Mumbai high were growing. The ICG, which was created through an Act of Parliament in 1978, has

  Dania and Rida Khan, students of the Bombay Scottish School, are campaigning to save the horses of Matheran, a popular hill resort close to Mumbai, Maharashtra, who face starvation as their owners have lost their livelihood because of the Covid-19 pandemic Dania, 12 and Rida Khan, 15, are sisters. Both of them have raised Rs 3 lakhs through crowdfunding to raise support for the horse owners and also the horses. They buy rations and prepare kits to be distributed among the owners of the horses and also fodder and water for the animals. Matheran, about 110 km from Mumbai, has a population of around 10,000; almost all are dependent on tourism. Tourists here often ride horses. Due to the Covid-19, the hills station wears a deserted look. Maharashtra had a very high incidence of the Covid case and has been under constant lockdown for a long period. Due to all these circumstances, the horse owners are in a lot of trouble. How did Dania and Rida think of supporting Matheran's horses and

Deepak Vohra, No one trusts China. Talking to his Chinese counterpart on 11 February 2021, Joe Biden expressed concern over China’s coercive and unfair trade practices, its violation of human rights, crackdown in Hong Kong, and mistreatment of Muslims, aggressive actions in Asia including Taiwan, and obfuscation over the virus. Beijing wants the world to forget these issues. “There will be repercussions for China and he knows that,” Biden said later. There are several bills in the US Congress to punish China. Joe Biden told US senators that “if we don’t get moving, they (China) are going to eat our lunch” and said famously that Xi does not have a democratic bone in his body. Beijing, drunk with hubris, does not understand American English. During the Cold War, Moscow and Washington had reached a comfortable modus Vivendi, a strategic stalemate. Collapse of the USSR With an awesome military but a hollow economy, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and in the words of an American scholar

  Ziauddin Barni, a contemporary of Hazrat Amir Khusrau, writes in Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi “The incomparable Amir Khusrau stands unequalled for the volume of his writings and the originality of his ideas for, while other great masters of prose and verse have excelled in one or two branches, Amir Khusrau was conspicuous in every department of letters. A man with such mastery over all the forms of poetry has never existed in the past and may perhaps not come into existence before the Day of Judgment.”  Read full article :  Amir Khusrau; a timeless literary genius, polymath